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School: Sruthán an Aifrinn (roll number 13982)

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Massbrook Lower, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Mhóráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0149, Page 359

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  1. The Different Ways we Stick Potatoes

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    Some people make holes with a stibín in the ridges they put in the splits and cover it with soil. Another way is that they turn over sods and they leave they leave the splits on the sods, and they cover them. They call that the filibin. More of them make drills with the plough. They put the splits on the shoughs between the drills. They cover them with soil. They make ridges with the plough and stick them with the spade. If the land is hard they turn in a sod on the side of the ridge. The leave the split on the sod and cover
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
          1. potatoes (~2,701)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Grehan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Massbrook Lower, Co. Mayo